Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-26
CONTESTED ELECTION CASES.

CONTESTED ELECTION CASES
Mr.. Turner (Ga-) presented the conference report
on the bill relating to contested election cases,
and it was agreed to. CThe bill prescribes the
transmitted to the clerk of the House)
Mr. Bragg CWis.l presented the conference report
on the Dill forthe location and erection OF branch
Soldiers Home west OF the Rocky mountains and
1t was agreed to.
CoNFEREES ON THE RIVER AND HARBOR BILL
the speaker announced the appointment OF
Messrs. Willis, Blanchard and Henderson nl.) as
conferees on the river and harbor appropriation
bill.
TIE NAVAL APPROPRIATION BILL
The House then went into committee OF the
whole {Mr. McCreary, OF Kentucky, in the chair
on the naval appropriation bin.
on point OF order, the provision changing from
SIX 10 1Our years the course OF study at the naval
academy was ruled out OF the bill.
TWO AND half MILLION FOR SWIFT CRUISERS
Mr.. Sayers (Tex.) offered an amendment appro-
pratfng s. 600 for the construction OF two swift
double-bottOmed steel cruisers each OF 1000 tons
displacement, OF thetype OF the Newark, except
boilers and machinery; four OF about LOO
boat No. l." and one swift torpedo boat-said
vessels to cost altogether, exclusive OF armament,
Mr.. Holman, OF Indiana, raised the point OF
order that the amendment changed existing law
Mr. HerSer nSs IN haS oa any IN Of
an existing w0rk--the increase OF the navy. The
| chair believed that the construction OF navy
was public work, and that the language OF the
bill and the appropriation made last session
showed that the construction OF the navy was In
ne overruled the point OF order
Nominations To-Day.
The President sent the following nominations to
the Senate to-day:
Navy-Commodore Lewis A. Kimberly, to be
rear admiral; Capt VIM p McCann, to be COM
mOdore; Commander Gilbert C. Wiitse, to be
captain; Lieutenant Commander Felix McCurley,
to be commander.
War-Eirst Lieut.. Arthur c. Ducat. Jr:, 30 cav
airy, to be first lieutenant oath infantry; tirst INST
Lieut.. Henry L. Ripley, oath infantry, 10 pe nrst
lieutenant Sd cavalry. Transfers9
Consular and Diplomatic Bill.
CHANGES MADE BY THE SENATE COMMITTEE IN THE
APPROPRIATIONS.
The Diplomatic and consular bill, reported to
the Senate yesterday by Senator Allison, appro-
PIRATES 81 43O 442, an increase Of s11s, ,722 upon
the House bill. The amount is 500, ,2S0 less than
the estimates but is s66, ,377 more than the appro
priation for the current year. The Senate COM
mittee restores the salaries of the following on-
Gals treduced by the Housel to their present 1g-
ure: Consul general at Cairo, secretary OF lega-
Japan and China, secretaries OF legation in Chilli
and Peru, secretary OF legation In Turkey, inter-
prefer in Siam, consuls general at kanagawa,
Panama, Halifax, st. Petersburg and Mexico.
The following consulates omitted by the House
are restored: At Hong Kong, Sheffield Matamoras,
are placed upon salaries as follows: Annaberg,
Brunswick, ST. Gales Mayence, 3, 500 each: Bar
ranquIlla, Rheims, ST. Ettienne, Dusseldorf, Elber-
field, Dunferline. Chatham, Port Stanley and st.
Thomas, Sherbrook and Horgen, s., 600 each;
Cognac, Breslau, Kehl, Brockvile, Guelph. London
81, 500 each In each case the salary is less than
the aggregate OF fees The salary OF the minister
to Turkey, reduced by the House from $4,000 to
$500, was not restored.
District in Congress.
THE POTOMAC FLATS TIDAL GATE.
various owners OF wharf property on the banks
! OF the Potomac, through Senator Mcpherson, have
petitloned Congress to insert provso In that pOr
tion of the river and harbor bill which relates to
the improvement OF the Potomac fats, stipulating
farther up the river than is now contemplated, so
that the wharveS for 800 feet above the Long
bridge shall not be 6arricaded and shut out from
being available for business as now threatened.
The petition was referred to the committee on ap-
proprations.
THE WASHINGTON HOSPITAL FOR FoUNDLNGS
In the Senate to-day Nj. Hoar offered a resolu-
tion, which was adopted, directing the District
committee to inquire and report whether the
washington Hospital for Foundl1ngs has refused
to receive colored orphan children into that tnstt-
tuition, and whether such refusal be authorized by
law, and whether the institution Is supported In
whole or in part by grants from the public treas
ury.
Capitol Topics.
IN BEHALF OF THE CLAIM AGENTS.
In the Senate yesterday, as bearing upon the
veto Of the dependent pensions bill, Mr.. Plumb
Oswego Post, G. A. r., Oswego, Kansas: ere
solved-To Grover Cleveland: We will cast our
vetoes in November, 1885"
THE BILL TO CREATE A NEW DEPARTMENT.
The House committee on agriculture decided to-
day to recommend concurrence In the Senate
amendments to the bill to create the department
OF agriculture and labor. Mr.. Hatch WILL at the
first opportunity move that the House concur In the
aimos1 Certain to do the bin viii REQUIRE but the
signature OF the President to become law.
ANOTHER VETO.
The President has vetoed the bill for public
building at Portsmouth, Ohio.
MEDALS FOR THE VOLUNTEERS OF 1861.
In the Senate to-day Mr.. Sewell, from the mill
tary committee reported favorably the bill direct
ing the secretary OF War to have medals prepared
from captured cannon and presented to the Off
GERS and men who responded 10 President Lncoln's
first call for troops in 1861, and approp1ating
money to pay the cost OF moiding such medals.
TO RELIEVE ALEXANDRIA.
Senator Malone yesterday introduced bill to
relieve the city council Of Alexandria from the
duty OF delivering to the United states govern
ment ,220 capital shares OF stock in the Alexan-
dria Canal company, under the ACT approved March
& 1897 because the United States has now pur-
chased the whole thing; and to relieve the same
city council from any further compliance with a
decree rendered in October 1882, by the United
States circuit court OF the eastern district OF Vr-
ginia, which decree related to the same subject.
5sT!f 10 REPAIR THE OLD VESSELS.
The House did not complete the consideration of
the naval appropriation bill yesterday. The most
important action waSthe adoption of an amend
ment appropriaring $500. 600 for repairs to the
Hartford, kearsarga Trenton, Swatara, Thet1s,
Nipsic, Richmond AID Enterprise. This Is in the
nature OF deficiency appropriation to prevent the
closing Of the yards until July.
THE PLEUR0-PNEUMONA BILL
substitute for the pleuro- o-pneumonia bill Of
feredb by HI. Edmunds was adopted In the senate
yesterday. It appropriates 81 ,OOO, 900 to be ex-
pended, under direction OF the President through
the Commissioners Of Agriculture in preventing the
spread OF pleuro pneumonia, the appropriation to
expire at the end OF two years. Subsequently Mr..
Dawes moved to reconsider the vote by which the
substitute was adopted. Before the vote was
taken at the suggestion OF Mr. Miller the bill was
laid aside informally.
C0NFEREES FAIL 10 AGREE.